"lean" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The "telegraph made prose lean and unadorned", and subsequently separated the readers previously personal connection with the author.
- The story is told in lean, precise, unsentimental prose that avoids cliche.
- His lean, dry, elegant prose from which emotion has been drained away looks at human experience from a perspective that suggests a scientist examining tiny poisonous reptiles under a microscope.
- She liked it a lot, particularly Hamid's "lean, hip, present-tense" prose.
- Still, it's an impressive debut, full of lean and lyrical prose.
- Dalton's approach, combining exhaustive research with lean prose, is more austere.
- Last year our reviewer, Marilyn Stasio, praised the novel for its "lean prose and wheels-within-wheels plotting."
- Also loved the way Coetzee uses the spare, lean prose to mirror Lurie's (and SA's?)
- "If stung, consult a doctor" is a good example of the lean, no-nonsense prose you'll find throughout this book.
- Foster's first book is fashioned from lean, sharp prose, the kind that usually invites adjectives like "hip" and "edgy."
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